Alferd
Alferd was last recorded in 1976, when 6 babies were given it; 957 Americans have been recorded with it between 1891 and 1976 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Alferd by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Alferd?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #4,947, in 1976; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
30 babies in 1930, the peak
Alferd peaked in 1930, when 30 boys were given it, #1,299 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1976 | 6 | #4,947 | 3.8 |
| 1974 | 8 | #3,843 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,067 | 4.5 |
| 1972 | 5 | #4,999 | 3.1 |
| 1970 | 7 | #3,843 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,419 | 2.8 |
| 1967 | 7 | #3,234 | 4.0 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,781 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 8 | #3,052 | 4.0 |
| 1963 | 13 | #2,300 | 6.4 |
Every recorded year (67)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1962 | 6 | #3,644 | 2.9 |
| 1961 | 12 | #2,412 | 5.6 |
| 1960 | 10 | #2,686 | 4.7 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,296 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 9 | #2,818 | 4.2 |
| 1957 | 9 | #2,824 | 4.2 |
| 1956 | 17 | #1,945 | 8.0 |
| 1955 | 14 | #2,138 | 6.8 |
| 1954 | 16 | #1,955 | 7.8 |
| 1953 | 17 | #1,899 | 8.6 |
| 1952 | 18 | #1,804 | 9.3 |
| 1951 | 13 | #2,136 | 6.9 |
| 1950 | 16 | #1,878 | 8.9 |
| 1949 | 11 | #2,339 | 6.2 |
| 1948 | 17 | #1,818 | 9.7 |
| 1947 | 12 | #2,252 | 6.6 |
| 1946 | 15 | #1,883 | 9.2 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,243 | 7.4 |
| 1944 | 23 | #1,400 | 16.9 |
| 1943 | 21 | #1,528 | 14.7 |
| 1942 | 14 | #1,948 | 10.1 |
| 1941 | 17 | #1,687 | 13.8 |
| 1940 | 19 | #1,574 | 16.4 |
| 1939 | 9 | #2,451 | 8.1 |
| 1938 | 16 | #1,742 | 14.4 |
| 1937 | 16 | #1,756 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 22 | #1,417 | 21.2 |
| 1935 | 16 | #1,758 | 15.4 |
| 1934 | 14 | #1,932 | 13.6 |
| 1933 | 17 | #1,709 | 17.1 |
| 1932 | 20 | #1,585 | 19.2 |
| 1931 | 28 | #1,302 | 26.9 |
| 1930 | 30 | #1,299 | 27.3 |
| 1929 | 25 | #1,443 | 23.2 |
| 1928 | 28 | #1,382 | 25.3 |
| 1927 | 22 | #1,647 | 19.5 |
| 1926 | 19 | #1,791 | 17.1 |
| 1925 | 25 | #1,493 | 22.4 |
| 1924 | 22 | #1,676 | 19.4 |
| 1923 | 20 | #1,752 | 18.2 |
| 1922 | 12 | #2,488 | 11.0 |
| 1921 | 24 | #1,550 | 21.8 |
| 1920 | 26 | #1,458 | 24.4 |
| 1919 | 23 | #1,531 | 23.5 |
| 1918 | 16 | #2,000 | 15.8 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,695 | 20.5 |
| 1916 | 20 | #1,594 | 22.5 |
| 1915 | 13 | #2,069 | 15.3 |
| 1914 | 6 | #2,924 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 6 | #2,503 | 11.7 |
| 1912 | 6 | #2,273 | 14.0 |
| 1911 | 6 | #1,539 | 26.6 |
| 1910 | 6 | #1,424 | 30.9 |
| 1909 | 5 | #1,445 | 30.5 |
| 1902 | 5 | #1,142 | 40.8 |
| 1899 | 6 | #929 | 56.5 |
| 1891 | 5 | #968 | 49.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Alferd a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Alferd has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 67 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Alferd: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Alferd, and how old are they?
An estimated 266 Americans named Alferd and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (28% of everyone recorded); the median is 72 years old and half are between 64 and 80. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 232 people named Alferd (3 women and girls, 229 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 346 born in the U.S. The Census count is 33% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 250,996 babies since 1880, Alferd is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 293 babies recorded by SSA was a Alferd (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Alferd
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Alferd and names like it
- Compare Alferd and AlfredBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Oklahoma’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Alferd since 1910.
- The top names of 1930The year the most babies were named Alferd.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Alferd alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with AMost given first.